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CONSTRUCTION OF TENEMENT HOUSES.

Patented July 22, 1890.

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CONSTRUCTION OP TENEMBNT HOUSES.

No. 432,774. Patented July 22, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VVILBUR A. SMITH AND FRANK H. PECKIVELL, OF BRIDGEPORT, CON NECTI- CUT;SAID PECKIVELL ASSIGNOR TO SAID SMITH.

CONSTRUCTION OF TEN EM ENT HOUSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,774, dated July 22,1890. Application led May 12, 1890. Serial No. 351,439. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern: adapt the building` to a still narrower lot,the4 Be it known' that we, IVILBUR A. SMITH plan of one lowertenementonlybeing shown. and FRANK H. PECKWELL, citizens of the 1 denotes theapartments of the lower tene- I United States, residing at Bridgeport,in the ments; 2, the halls; 3, the front porches; 4, .5 5 5 county ofFairfieldand State of Connecticut, the rear porches, and lO thecellar-stairs for have invented certain new and useful Imthe lowertenements provements in the Construction of rlenement 5 denotes theapartments of the upper ten e- Houses; and we do hereby declare thefollowments, and 6 the upper halls of the upper ing to be a full, clear,and exact description tenements. 6o 1o of the invention, such as willenable others The flues are denoted by 7, and closets by 8. skilled inthe art to which it appertains to We wish it distinctly understood thatour make and use the same. invention is not limited to any special size,Our invention has forits object an arrangenumber, and arrangement ofapartments and ment of two-story double dwelling-houses closets ineither the upper and lower tene- 65 15 comprising four tenements, whichshall be ments, nor to the number and location of the especially adaptedfor narrow lots, and which tlues. These details of construction may beshall give to each tenement large, light, and varied without departingfrom` the principle roomy apartments, a passage-Way from front of ourinvention, the gist of which lies in the to rear on each side of thebuilding, and shall special arrangement of front and cellar en- 7o zofurthermore give to each of the four tenetrances to the upper tenements.As already ments independent front and rear entrances stated, our novelplan contemplates a pasand separate entrances to the cellar, thesage-way betweeneach side of the building special object being to avoidhalls common and the side lines of the lot. y to any two of thetenements, and to give to Turning now to Fig. 1,9 denotes the front 75 z5 each tenement all the advantages on three porches ot` the uppertenements; 1l, the lower sides, so far as light and airy apartments arehalls of the upper tenements; l2, stairs leadconcerned, that could besecured in a single ing from halls l1 to the cellar, and 13 stairs`house of equal capacity, while at the same leading from halls 11 tohalls 6 of the upper time the entire structure may be built upon'tenements. These stairs make a half-turn 8o 3o a lot varying in widthfrom thirty-tive to fifty at 13 and then continue straight upwardtofeet. \Vith these ends in View we have der ward the center of thehouse, as indicated vised the simple and novel arrangement of by dottedlines in Fig. 1 and by full lines in apartments and stair-cases which wewill now Fig. 2, until they reach the landings or upper describe indetail, and then specifically point halls 6 of the upper tenements. Fromthese 85 3 5 out in the claims. halls doors lead in both directions toapartln the accompanying drawings, forming ments 5. part of thisspecification, Figure 1 is a plan Ve have indicated doors by 14 in allthe View showing our novel arrangement of apartfigures, and Windows by15. ments on the ground tlour--that is, the apart- 16 (see Fig. 2)denotes a roof covering the 9o 4o ments comprisedin the two lowertenements* portion of halls 11 and stairs 13, whichexandalsoshowingthearrangement of the stairtends outward beyond the sideline of the cases leading to the second floor-that is, to building. Thisextension may, if preferred, the two upper tenements. Fig. 2 is a planbe extended upward to form a projecting View showing the arrangement ofapartments alcove for one of the apartments of the up- 9 5 45 on thesecond floor-that is, the apartments per tenements, this change indetail being a comprising the two upper tenements-and matter whollyunimportant so far as our presalso showing the arrangement ot' the upperent invention is concerned. In the modified ends of the staircasesleading thereto from the form illustrated in Fig. 3 there is noextenoutside, there being no common halls in the sion whatever beyondthe side line of the 1o@ 5o entire building; and Fig. 3 is a Viewcorrebuilding. l-Ialls ll and stairs 13 are made spending with Fig. 1,but slightly modified to slightly narrower, and a little more room istaken from one of the apartments of the lower tenement. This likewise isan unimportant change so far as our invention is concerned.

17 in Fig. 2 denotes the roof of the porches of the lower tenements. Therear stairs to the upper tenements, denoted by 18, (see dotted lines,Fig. 2,) are built outside of the building proper and are preferablycovered by a roof, and may or may not be inclosed. These stairs are inpractice built directly over porches 4. It will thus be seen that by ourspecial arrangement of stairs, apartments, Snc., We are enabled to buildtwo-story buildings having four tenements on narrow lots, and giveindependent front, rear, and cellar entrances to each tenement.

Having thus described our invention, we claml. A two-story four-tenementbuildin g having independent front entrances to the lowertenements,independent rear entrances to both upper and lower tenements,entrances to the cellar from 011e of the apartments of the lowertenements, and independent side entrances to the upper tenements, and,in connection with said entrances, entrances to the cellar for the uppertenements, substantially as described.

2. Atwo-story four-tenement building having on opposite sides thereofindependent entrances and stairs leading to the upper tenements andunder said stairs, and stairs leading to the cellar but whollyindependent of the lower tenements.

In testimonywhereof we aix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

WILBUR A. SMITH.

FRANK H. PECKWELL. Witnesses:

A. M. WoosTER, ARLEY I. MUNsoN.

